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The wear-and-tear of daily stressors on mental health
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Researchers assert that affective responses to seemingly minor daily events have long-term implications for mental health, yet this phenomenon has rarely been investigated. In the current study, we examined how levels of daily negative affect and affective reactivity in response to daily stressors predicted general affective distress and self-reported anxiety and depressive disorders 10 years after they were first assessed. Across eight consecutive evenings, participants (N = 711; age = 25 to 74 years) reported their daily stressors and their daily negative affect. Increased levels of negative affect on nonstressor days were related to general affective distress and symptoms of an affective disorder 10 years later. Heightened affective reactivity to daily stressors predicted greater general affective distress and an increased likelihood of reporting an affective disorder. These findings suggest that the average levels of negative affect that people experience and how they respond to seemingly minor events in their daily lives have long-term implications for their mental health.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Charles, S. T., Piazza, J. R., Mogle, J., Sliwinski, M. J., & Almeida, D. M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- California State University, Fullerton (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-03-26
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 733-741
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC3654031
- OpenAlex
- W2140727693
- Cited by
- 459
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 34 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 5
- FWCI
- 36.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (P01AG03949, P01AG003949, P01AG020166, R01AG019239)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041025)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- daily hassles, negative affect, emotional reactivity, emotional distress, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, mood disorders, longitudinal follow-up, daily life events, mental health
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Affect, Age Factors, Aged, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Mental Health, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological, United States, Causality, Odds Ratio, Self Report
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